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IDFA 2005

Spoorwegbouw Zuid-Limburg

Railway Construction South Limburg
Joris Ivens
Netherlands
1930
13 min
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- () shows the construction of the "Million Railway Track," for which each kilometre cost a million guilders and huge amounts of soil had to be moved. Mankind's mastering of nature with his labour and ingenuity (i.e. the machines that he invented) was a theme dear to Ivens and one that he would elaborate in many of his films. - includes shots that are typical of the 1920s avant-garde style: workers filmed in frog perspective and carriages that run diagonally through the frame.

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    Capi Films
    Capi Films
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    Beeld en Geluid
    Beeld en Geluid